Improvement in machines for nailing- shoe-soles with wire



N4 PETERS. PHOTO-LITMOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON D c.

LOUIS eoDDU, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSTQNOR To spinnt Tem'- SEND, or SAME PLAGE;

Letters Patent No. 97,192,y (lated Norcmber 23, 186i).

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHNES FOR NAILING SHOE-SOLES WIT WIRE.

,. The Schedule referredl to in these Letters Patent and Vmaking prt of the same.

and down, or lengthwise of it, as well as to oscillat-c Be it known that I, LOUIS GoDD'U, a citizen of the on tsfulcrum. v Dominion oi Canada, having resided in the United- There is also applied' to the stock or frame, a feed r States the yeal preceding, and made oath of intention wheel, h, provided with a ratchet, i, and a presserto become a citizen thereof', and being now a residentwheel, k, held in place by a spring', im.

of Boston, ofthe countyof Suffolk, and State oth/fassa'` The wire 'l, to be cut and driven, goes between the chusetts,'0r the vicinity thereof, have made a new two wheels 11.7.2, thence through the 'spring an. and a and useful invention of Improvements in Machinery guide, n', projected from the fra-mc or stock. having reference to the Nailing of Shoe-Soles, or vari- A lever, o, pivoted to the stock at p, has `jointed to ous other articles; and I do hereby declare the said its lower end a draw-pawl, q, which engages with the invention, oriinprovements in nailing-machinery, to he ratchet i'.

fully described in the following specification, and rep- A spring, lr', fixed to the frame and the lever o, resented in the accompanying drawings, oi'which serves to retract the l rawpa\\l in the ratchet, the Figure 1 is a front elevation, and extent ot' rearward movement oi such pawl being de- Figures 2 and 3, opposite side elevations of' a shoctermined by means of a slide-gauge, 1', and a 'stopsole-nailing machine embodying my said invention. pin, ,.v. The said stop-pin extends i'rom the levcr o in In many of' its essential characteristics, the machine' manner as represented. is analogous to that described and represented inthe The gauge r, formed as shown in the drawings, and specic'ationand drawings ot' LettersPatent`No..77,104, particularly as, exhibited ihv Figure (i, (which is a verdated April 21, .1868, andgranted to Joseph T. Sartical section, takenl through it and the part for susgent.' taining it, `ig1n'e being a top view ofsuch part and It, however, contains new and useful mechanism for -the stops ofthe gauge,) is arranged ina hole or pasoperating the-movable cutter and the wire-transferrer. sage, t, and has its t'rout cud tapcringor wedge-sleuven. It also contains a slide-gauge, to be actuated bythe At its rear, the gauge is bont somewhat in the shape hand 0r finger of a person while grasping the handle, of the trigger' ot' the lock oi" a gun. The part t,.so ot' the frame or stock' of the machine, and the ma-VN bent up, extends between two stopsu n, which lin'ntchine may be in operation, such' slide-gauge being' for the longitudinal movements ot' the gauge. causing the ibeding-mcc'hanism to feed the wire for-A l hc part t' is arranged So as to enable a person, ward, or deliver it, in suclrlengths or distances as, while grasping the handle in one hand, to apply lns from time to time, may be desirable, as the sole to be iifth finger to such part t', and move the gauge lengthnailed may either increase or diminish in thickness. wise, as occasion may require. i

In the drawings A spring, fr, applied to the gauge and the stock, VA denotes lhe stock or frame, for supportingr the serves to retract such gauge, or lnove it in a direction main operative'parts ot the machine, suoli stock. beopposite to that' by winch it may be moved by the ing provided at its upper part with a handle, lli, whichI finger, as explained. is to be grasped by the left hand of'a person', in order lle wedge-end ot' the gauge determines, with the to hold the machine in an upright position, while it stop-pins, the extent ot' back movement ofthe drawmay be at work, and he may be operating it by `turnpaw] on the ratchet, as the further the gauge may be ing'a crank, U, fixed to one end otA a d riving-shaft, l). moved by the finger, the less vill be such movement The said shaft, having `its journals supported in bearof the pawl, and, as a consequence, the shorter will be Vings a a, carries a spur-gear, E,'whicii engages with a the advance of the nail-wire. pinion, li, iixedon another shaft, (i, on whose outer From the above, it will be seen that the operative, enda fiy-whcel, H, is iastened. by means ot' the gauge, arranged and applied in man- The gear E. has one continuous cani-groove, b, made ner as described, can readily control or regulate the in one side of it, as shown in Figure 4, which is a side extent of such advance ofthe wire. V elevation ofthe said gear, and within its opposite side Such wire, after cach advance, will be extended `are two other continuous ca1n-grooves, as shown at c across a stationary cutter or knit'e, u', arranged'witlnn and d in Figure 5, winch is an opposite side view ot' and so to project from the guide ln'. g the Said gear E. These two cam-groovesreceive A movable cutter, af1ixed in the lesser arm y of' a friction-wheels, arranged on pivots projected' from a lever, K, operates with the stationary cutter to sever i'cedingdever, I, which pivoted to 4the stocl\',`as the wire. i

shown at c. Figure S is a front view, and

Within the lever is a rectangular slot, f, which re- Figure t), a top viewofthe lever l. ceives a slide, g, rthrough which the pivot-pin c ex- Figure 1() is a top view, and

' tends, the wholebeing to enable the lever 'to play up Figure 11, a side view oi'the lever L.

These twolevers K L have concentric ulcra, which extend transversely through the stock; that is to say, from the leverA K, a tube, e, projects int-o and is pivoted in the stockl This tube receives a short shaft' or l'nlcr'nm, c', on one end ofA which is the .transierrer 71'. The tube has fixed toit the tail c' of the lever K, The

transferrer, the part a', and .the arm or tail c' constitute the lever K. l

grooves of the ta-ilsfof the levers K L, will pnt such' levers in movement at the propel' times, whereby not only` will the wire. be severed by the cutters, hutthe ltransfert-cr will bc revolved, so as to bring a wire-receiving passage, c', made Vthrough it, into line with the wire, in order that the said wire, previously to being severed, may be received into the passage.

'After the wire may have been `out of?, the transferrer will be turned, so as to bring the said wire-pas-Y sage into a vertical positionjn order to enable a wire-Y driver, shown at N, during its descent, to enter the passage and force the piece oi wire ont of 1t, and drive it into a sole, in case the machine maybe resting on Dile.

This driven-and an awl, O, arcl'ixed to the lower Apart ot' a carrier, P, such carrier being arranged as irepresented, and so applied tothe frame as to be capa ble of sliding rectilinearly therein.

A cam or wiper, It, fixed on the driving-shaft, by acting against an adjustable slider, S, clamped on the carrier l), serves to elevate the carrier, and to contract a helicalspring, y', (arranged on the said can'ier,) which, on the instant the cam "may have passed the slider S, will react and force the carrier downward, thereby causing the nail to be driven into the'sol'e,f

and au awl-hole to b e madesimultaneonsly therein.

An adjustable edge-gauge, h", held in place b v'aV clamp-screw, 1'?, is applied to the lower part of theV stock or frame A.

In operating with theabove-dcscribed machine, thev Y he attendant is to grasp, with his left hand, the

handle of the stock A, and turn the crank C with rthe other hand. In so doing, he will cause, through the mechanism, the machine to have intermittent movementsfalong the sole, each advance of it beingla like distance.

During each interval of rest of the machine on the sole, the nail-driver and the awl will be raised, the trai-islerrer will be revolved back to receive the wire, the said wire will be'allvanced into the transferrer, and be severed or cut by the cutters, aft-er whichthe transfer-rer will be turned back to its tirst position, and the driver and awl will be forced downward, thereby causing the nail to be expelled from the transfer-rer anddriven into the awl-hole of the sole, and the awl to form in the sole a hole for the reception ci' the next nail to be driven.

'In theabove-described machine, '.I claim, as my invention, the following, viz: The combination, as well thearrangernent, substantially las described, of the stationary cntter'w, the rl'novable mittel-.11, the transferrer-b, their concentric fulcra or shafts z a', the slotted tails c 'ii thereof, the movable T- piece M, and its operative cam-wheel E, the whole being applied to thestock or frame, and

connected with mechanism for advancing 'the wire,

severing it,` and driving it, all substantially as specified.

Also, the arrangement ot' the slidefgauge r, as set forth, with the handle B ofthe stock A, and with the stop-pin s of the pawl-lever of the wire-feeding mechanism.

Also, the combination and arrangement of the slider-gauge lr, 'as set forth, its stops u mand operative spring e, with the stock A and itshandle B, and` the stop s and operative lever o of the wire-feeding mechanism. v

f LOUIS GODDU. A NVitncsses:

R. H. EDDY,

S. N. PIPER. 

